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. >> joe, poll watching is done by all party, civil rights groups you and i have been affiliated with. there's nothing wrong with it. why would someone want to purposely deceive their connection or affiliation with poll watching unless there's something they're going to do -- we're dealing with here that does not meet the eye? >> they might get one of those samuel l. jackson attitudes, you know, get out of my face mentality. first of all, that's understand what this is -- who they're directing this at. they will -- it will slow down, for example, the process. now, if you slow down the process -- look how long the lines are been for voting early. imagine what the lines will look like on election day. you slow down the process by having all of these challenges. number two, the elderly are targeted because they lie and they say that a poll worker can't come out and help an elderly who might be in a car or van who has a wheelchair. that's a lie. it slows down those who think they might be discouraged, because i have a record even though i'm qualified. they're targeting people. what you've
. >> joe, poll watching is done by all party, civil rights groups you and i have been affiliated with. there's nothing wrong with it. why would someone want to purposely deceive their connection or affiliation with poll watching unless there's something they're going to do -- we're dealing with here that does not meet the eye? >> they might get one of those samuel l. jackson attitudes, you know, get out of my face mentality. first of all, that's understand what this is -- who...
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. what mitt romney's tv ads say about women? or what mitt romney himself says? mitt romney: do i believe the supreme court... should overturn roe v. wade? yes. and it would be my preference that they, that they... reverse roe v. wade. hopefully reverse roe v. wade. overturn roe v. wade. planned parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. anncr: no matter what mitt romney's ads say. we know what he'll do. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. . >>> many people taking advantage of early voting in the day's leading up to the presidential election. a maryland woman told us she voted. it didn't go quite as planned. beth parker explains. >> reporter: it's the first time for early voting. obviously, it's going over well here in prince georges county. look at the huge line that snakes around here. one woman we talked to said she didn't mind wale wait negligent the
it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. what mitt romney's tv ads say about women? or what mitt romney himself says? mitt romney: do i believe the supreme court... should overturn roe v. wade? yes. and it would be my preference that they, that they... reverse roe v. wade. hopefully reverse roe v. wade. overturn roe v. wade. planned parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. i'll...
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. >>> welcome back. it is 6:00 here this morning. we are watching hurricane sandy very closely for you this morning. good morning. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin. a very busy morning indeed. tucker barnes will have the latest information as soon as we get it. >> before we talk with him, first the warnings about this storm are being taken very seriously. >> there is a long list of what is closed today. metro is closed today. that includes all rail, bus and metro access service. the federal government is also closed. d.c. government offices or closed as well and so are most schools across it is region. >> for a full list of closures gorks to myfoxdc.com. we are also running all the closures on the top of your screen. -- for a full list of closures, go to myfoxdc.com. >> tucker, can you at least -- i know you are very busy over there. here, we have a picture it was right now. what is the latest on this? >> so, we're now
it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. >>> welcome back. it is 6:00 here this morning. we are watching hurricane sandy very closely for you this morning. good morning. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin. a very busy morning indeed. tucker barnes will have the latest information as soon as we get it. >> before we talk with him, first the warnings about this...
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. >>> this is fox 5 news at 10:00. >>> d.c. mayor vincent gray is announcing big changes to speed camera fines which many drivers feel are excessive. here's the breakdown of the proposed changes. if you're going 10 miles over, the final drop from 75 to 50 bucks, 11 to 15 miles over the limit, fines will drop from 125 bucks to 100 bucks. if you're caught driving 25 miles per hour over the speed limit, the fine goes up 250 to $300. this change comes as city council considers a plan that would slash fines even more. fox 5's matt ackland has this story. >> with a council committee ready to take on those high speed camera fines next monday, mayor gray unveiled his own plan. >> we continue to work on this up through including yesterday and we are ready to announce the direction that we are going to be pursuing. >> under a plan proposed by council members mary cheh and tommy wells basically all speed camera fines would be lowered to
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. >>> you can some in and get a close look at your neighborhood or zoom out and get a wide view, a scope of how grand this hurricane is. so that's one aspect of it. of course the pictures that we can't be everywhere, and we want you to help us out and get your mobile devices out, snap photos and click on the submit feature on the fox 5 weather app. once you do that you'll have applicants is to your own gallery of photos on your smartphones. you can up load it. this is a look at one of the photos right now that has been sent in. this is damage in ocean city on the boardwalk, some of the bench that report delay were bolted to the ground were strewn. you can -- how about that photo of walmart in centreville? if you look closely a lot of shelves will be empty with food and water. if you look this is ammunition, folks getting ready for any scenario. feel free to download that weather app at d.c. weather. you can submit photos by e
it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. >>> you can some in and get a close look at your neighborhood or zoom out and get a wide view, a scope of how grand this hurricane is. so that's one aspect of it. of course the pictures that we can't be everywhere, and we want you to help us out and get your mobile devices out, snap photos and click on the submit feature on the fox 5...
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. imillion dollars for marylanded one hundred schools.ty... question seven will double it. rushern baker: question seven will add table games and... a new casino, generating millions of dollars... every year, without raising taxes. leggett: and audits will ensure the money goes... where it's supposed to. more jobs, and millions for schools. baker: question seven will be good for our kids... our teachers, and our schools. leggett: keep maryland money in maryland. baker: please vote for question seven. leggett: vote for question seven. >>> this is fox 5 news at 10:00. >>> the presidential election is just a week away, but politics right now taking a back seat to super storm sandy. tomorrow president obama will head to new jersey to get a first hand look at the damage. earlier today he dropped by the red cross headquarters in northwest d.c. to thank everyone. >> the reason we're here is because the red cross knows what it's doin
it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. imillion dollars for marylanded one hundred schools.ty... question seven will double it. rushern baker: question seven will add table games and... a new casino, generating millions of dollars... every year, without raising taxes. leggett: and audits will ensure the money goes... where it's supposed to. more jobs, and millions for schools....
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. athat's what the plan georged allen supports... would cost our economy. newspapers called it "economically destructive." like allen's votes to give tax breaks to companies... that ship jobs overseas, his economic plan would... help big corporations, devastating the middle class. allen even voted against tax breaks for small businesses. virginia can't afford to go back to george allen. the democratic senatorial campaign committee... is responsible for the content of this advertising. what mitt romney's tv ads say about women? or what mitt romney himself says? mitt romney: do i believe the supreme court... should overturn roe v. wade? yes. and it would be my preference that they, that they... reverse roe v. wade. hopefully reverse roe v. wade. overturn roe v. wade. planned parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. anncr: no matter what mitt romney's ads say. we know what he'll do.
it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. athat's what the plan georged allen supports... would cost our economy. newspapers called it "economically destructive." like allen's votes to give tax breaks to companies... that ship jobs overseas, his economic plan would... help big corporations, devastating the middle class. allen even voted against tax breaks for small...
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. >>> the sewage treatment system that serves the vast majority of homes in howard county is now back in operation, but tens of millions of gallons of raw consumer discharged into the little patuxent river before electricity was restored to the plant. tonight county officials are asking some very pointed questions. fox 5's john henrehan is live at the treatment facility. john, i imagine residents have some questions and concerns, too. >> reporter: tha little heated comments today. here are the headlines. the water system was never in jeopardy in howard county. they're entirely separate systems. the water was always safe to drink. the good news is this sewage treatment facility is back in operation. the bad news is up to 25 million gallons of untreated sewage went into the chesapeake bay watershed before this place came back online. officials in howard county call this complex their water reclamation plant because after sewage
it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. >>> the sewage treatment system that serves the vast majority of homes in howard county is now back in operation, but tens of millions of gallons of raw consumer discharged into the little patuxent river before electricity was restored to the plant. tonight county officials are asking some very pointed questions. fox 5's john henrehan...
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. imillion dollars for marylanded one hundred schools.ty... question seven will double it. rushern baker: question seven will add table games and... a new casino, generating millions of dollars... every year, without raising taxes. leggett: and audits will ensure the money goes... where it's supposed to. more jobs, and millions for schools. baker: question seven will be good for our kids... our teachers, and our schools. leggett: keep maryland money in maryland. baker: please vote for question seven. leggett: vote for question seven. . >>> super storm sandy is crippling the nation's blood spaces and it's appealing to new yorkers to donate. they need donors to replenish the platelet and blood space. the platelets this have a five- day shelf life. the center operates 45 blood drives a day and there are fewer due to the storm. >>> new jersey governor chris christie describes the aftermath with sandy with one word: unthinkable. a
it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. imillion dollars for marylanded one hundred schools.ty... question seven will double it. rushern baker: question seven will add table games and... a new casino, generating millions of dollars... every year, without raising taxes. leggett: and audits will ensure the money goes... where it's supposed to. more jobs, and millions for schools....
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. when we think no one is looking. is what we do... mitt romney: believe that they are victims. anncr: mitt romney thought no one was looking when... he attacked forty-seven percent of americans. his companies shipped jobs overseas. his plan cuts millionaires' taxes, but raises yours. he'll voucherize medicare... and make catastrophic cuts to education. so remember what romney said... and what his plan would do. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. real big deals of the week. or how to get great prices on things you need. heading into the holidays you look for the best deals. that's why we give you real big club card deals each week. right now, get a super low price on tide, $10.99 for 100 ounces. 12 rolls of bounty are $11.99. that's a dollar a roll! and charmin is $11.99 for 30 rolls. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>> here is the deal t might be t
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whether it was a civil rights attorney, this is a path i've been on. and the last two ads i don't talk about my opponent. what i've done and what i hope to do. that main theme of let's bring people together to find results, i did it as a nonpart son mayor and republican legislative leaders. >> at the level in the senate, do you think you would be able to work with a romney white house? >> i would be able to work with anyone who is president and i would consider any president my partner. i'm a supporter of president obama. but my first three years, president bush was president. we disagreed on a number of issues, i would never have defined myself as a destruction. we worked together on rail to dulles. when the president wanted governors to stand up and support his desire to get a line item veto in terms of the budget, i supported the president on that. i will always look to partner with the president. >> when governor allen came out of the gate with energy. talked about producing our own energy and coal and how you were not a friend to the coal industry
whether it was a civil rights attorney, this is a path i've been on. and the last two ads i don't talk about my opponent. what i've done and what i hope to do. that main theme of let's bring people together to find results, i did it as a nonpart son mayor and republican legislative leaders. >> at the level in the senate, do you think you would be able to work with a romney white house? >> i would be able to work with anyone who is president and i would consider any president my...
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you can not be for civil rights for african-americans but not for gays and lesbians. >> reverend william owens on the issue of civil rights -- >> when i was a boy, you couldn't drink out of a white water fountain, you couldn't go to a white restaurant, you couldn't go to a white hotel. they've never been denied those rights. >> i believe that gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every other couple in this country. >> now that president obama has come out in favor of gay marriage, bishop jackson and others want their congregations to deny the president their vote. >> just because somebody's skin is black, you're going to support an anti-god, anti-gospel agenda? no wonder you can't get a job. beware, my christian friend, you should not vote for barack obama. >> reverend braxton believes that the reason that many african-americans oppose gay marriage has to do with their history of being denied the right to marry as slaves. >> when you are disallowed a right and you are requesting to get the right, one of the best ways to do that in the face of those who hold power is to show that y
you can not be for civil rights for african-americans but not for gays and lesbians. >> reverend william owens on the issue of civil rights -- >> when i was a boy, you couldn't drink out of a white water fountain, you couldn't go to a white restaurant, you couldn't go to a white hotel. they've never been denied those rights. >> i believe that gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every other couple in this country. >> now that president obama has come out in favor...
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. >> there are lots of folks who don't think it's about civil rights but special rights. everybody has right to marry. the question is do you have special right to marry somebody in this country, we say marriage is between man and woman, no, me as woman don't have right to go out marry two men or one woman. i can marry another man. my rights are not insinged, yours are not infringed gay person is not infringed they just can't marry somebody of the same sex. >> do you see it pat passing in maryland, maine or washington? >> these are not consevertive states. maryland is not a conservative state but i will tell you one of the things we've seen we've been around the country in places like maryland predominantly -- marriage is an issue that really crosses religious groups, it crosses ethnic groups, it's really a uniter rather than divider issue. you go to the marriage rallies sometimes half the audience is black, half white. it's an issue that a lot of different folks come together. >> quickly on this. >> this issue will be seen when it's ever decided as a constitutional right
. >> there are lots of folks who don't think it's about civil rights but special rights. everybody has right to marry. the question is do you have special right to marry somebody in this country, we say marriage is between man and woman, no, me as woman don't have right to go out marry two men or one woman. i can marry another man. my rights are not insinged, yours are not infringed gay person is not infringed they just can't marry somebody of the same sex. >> do you see it pat...
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. i'm drinkin' a dunkin' latte. i'm in love with my dunkin' latte. it is a treat. they're packed with flavor. it's my kind of latte. try the simply delicious latte everyone can enjoy. america runs on dunkin'! >>> i just separated jim and peter, everything okay. >> yes, calm them down. >> it's close now and -- >> i know. right around the corner. >> less than a week to go. >>> tucker is here with the weather. guess what's going on this weekend? >> what is? >> extra hour to snooze. >> oh, yay! i had forgotten all about it. >> bad news is it will be getting dark at, you know -- >> like at 5:30. >> no, even earlier than that. 4:45. >> what? >> we're going to lose and hour of daylight on the back end of it. >> really early. >> i'll let you know when the sun is going to set sunday but i think it's about 5:15. going to be an educated guess. let me mention the storm, still some showers out there. we have cloud cover. winds have lighte
it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. i'm drinkin' a dunkin' latte. i'm in love with my dunkin' latte. it is a treat. they're packed with flavor. it's my kind of latte. try the simply delicious latte everyone can enjoy. america runs on dunkin'! >>> i just separated jim and peter, everything okay. >> yes, calm them down. >> it's close now and -- >> i...
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it began with the passage of the civil rights act in the '60s when the old dixiecrats like jesse helms left the democratic party because it became too racially inclusive and began gradually to take over the republican party. it's so dangerous to have one of our two big parties controlled by extremists because it makes people think that issues are equally divided when they are, in fact, not. they're 70-30 or 60-40. i think our long-term job is to take back the republican party. >> and just very quickly what is your prediction for tuesday? >> you know, it all depends who votes. if it is a lowered voter turnout, which obviously the governor and legislature of florida wants because they have cut the voting time almost in half and increased the ballot to 12 pages or something, then it will be an older, richer, whiter electorate. if it is a higher turnout, then it will be a more inclusive electorate. so a low turnout will elect romney-ryan. a high turnout, a true democratic turnout, will absolutely re-elect obama. >> yeah, and some states, from what i understand, the voting forums are like 3
it began with the passage of the civil rights act in the '60s when the old dixiecrats like jesse helms left the democratic party because it became too racially inclusive and began gradually to take over the republican party. it's so dangerous to have one of our two big parties controlled by extremists because it makes people think that issues are equally divided when they are, in fact, not. they're 70-30 or 60-40. i think our long-term job is to take back the republican party. >> and just...
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we won the right to vote for african-americans at the end of the civil war, and won is again a hundred years later. we have to do it again. yeah, at the turn of the century, we have to win again at the turn of this century. 70% of the people over 65 who don't have qualified ids in wisconsin under their new id law to stop the fraud to end voters that don't exist, 70 #% of people who got id are women. it's not just a race issue. it's a gender issue. it's a class issue. we don't let them get away with it, okay? now, what do we have at the back of the book? we have something that's very, very important. including this. in the book, it's a smaller version, but download it from our website, ballotbandits.org, seven ways to beat the bandits. i'm not leaving you going, oh, my god. you can take seven steps. get the book, take -- at the back of the book, we call it the ballot condom for safe voting. seven things to do to protect your own vote and those of your loved ones. don't mail in your ballot unless you have to. make sure -- two, vote early. if they call you a felon, see -- the guy who drew
we won the right to vote for african-americans at the end of the civil war, and won is again a hundred years later. we have to do it again. yeah, at the turn of the century, we have to win again at the turn of this century. 70% of the people over 65 who don't have qualified ids in wisconsin under their new id law to stop the fraud to end voters that don't exist, 70 #% of people who got id are women. it's not just a race issue. it's a gender issue. it's a class issue. we don't let them get away...
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and the democrat party and their black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide. they say opposition to same sex marriage is the same as opposition to interracial marriage. that is an insult to human intelligence. it is a lie. no christian should support this. yet, the democrat party has now declared same sex marriage an official part of its platform. and black christians remain in that party? the civil rights establishment has embraced the lie and betrayed the black community and god almighty. for 30 pieces of silver from the democrat party. we as christians ought to know better. shame on us for allowing ourselves to be sold to the highest bidder. we to god. >> bill: with us now to react is senior pastor at the first corinth baptist church and reverend degraph fox news contributor. your reaction tore that? >> i'm reverend degraph. >> my reaction is he mentions 30 pieces of silver. i wonder who paid for that. i wonder who this organization, this stand up for america really is because if you are a republic, he needs to just say that and if you say you condemn one p
and the democrat party and their black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide. they say opposition to same sex marriage is the same as opposition to interracial marriage. that is an insult to human intelligence. it is a lie. no christian should support this. yet, the democrat party has now declared same sex marriage an official part of its platform. and black christians remain in that party? the civil rights establishment has embraced the lie and betrayed the black community and god...
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i realized people who are familiar with the actual history of civil rights in america. and it was great because they believe everything the new york times believes. at least the girls on the view would argue with me. one sentence summary of my book, and don't make the same mistake america. liberals have been the primary practitioners 7. every police shooting, suddenly the klan had taken of the new york city police force. like the trade on martin case, they disappear once the facts come out. the story we were hysterical about, you would know -- the black kid was -- did ambush and killing a cop, only because the stories would disappear from the news. one of the best ones was michael stewart who came to be called an artist because he was caught spraying graffiti in the subway. a dozen cops, they got him to the hospital two weeks later and he passed out and the revived demand and he was at a coma and died of pneumonia. he died as a result of police brutality despite medical examiner's saying the opposite. the cops are put on trial for manslaughter. they are acquitted and th
i realized people who are familiar with the actual history of civil rights in america. and it was great because they believe everything the new york times believes. at least the girls on the view would argue with me. one sentence summary of my book, and don't make the same mistake america. liberals have been the primary practitioners 7. every police shooting, suddenly the klan had taken of the new york city police force. like the trade on martin case, they disappear once the facts come out. the...
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i run through the true history of civil rights. republicans don't realize we have a history there's nothing to be ashamed of. democrats have something to be ashamed of, which is why they switched sides in trayson, i tell the story of joe mccarthy. there, liberals had to rewrite five years, but here, it's 200 years of history. first hundred years, liberal democrats refused to treat blacks like humans, and for the next century, refused to treat them like adults. that's what we're living with now. they switched their history, played games of, oh, i know, you poor person living in queens, you be this, and i'll be a civil rights champion. [laughter] we get all this fake bravery, and we're back to it. liberals pretend to care about black people for five minutes, slap the civil rights label on everything they really care about, abortion on demand, homeless rights, gay marriage, voter fraud. voter fraud? what does that have to do with black people? no, liberals slam their blacks by saying no black people are too stupid to get a photo id. t
i run through the true history of civil rights. republicans don't realize we have a history there's nothing to be ashamed of. democrats have something to be ashamed of, which is why they switched sides in trayson, i tell the story of joe mccarthy. there, liberals had to rewrite five years, but here, it's 200 years of history. first hundred years, liberal democrats refused to treat blacks like humans, and for the next century, refused to treat them like adults. that's what we're living with now....
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and that summer, congress passed the voting rights act. >> the '64 civil rights act was a huge u.s. government intervention into the hard-core racial segregation. of 65, was the real game changer. >> the act banned literacy tests and other jim crow laws to keep blacks from the voting booth. these had been the airtight ways to keep the descendants of slaves from having clout at the voting box and with it, any place in politics. >> 70% to 80% of african-americans down to world war ii lived in the 11 states of the former confederacy. their voter participation rates were in the 4% or 5% range. there really is little to no black presence in the political system, between roughly the 1870s and the 1950s. >> after the civil war and the emancipation proclamation, there was a brief period of black political engagement. there was hundreds of blacks elected to office. some became members of congress. but whites soon retook power in the south. by the turn of the century, congress was once again whites-only. those jim crow laws made it so. >> american history bent away from justice, decisively aw
and that summer, congress passed the voting rights act. >> the '64 civil rights act was a huge u.s. government intervention into the hard-core racial segregation. of 65, was the real game changer. >> the act banned literacy tests and other jim crow laws to keep blacks from the voting booth. these had been the airtight ways to keep the descendants of slaves from having clout at the voting box and with it, any place in politics. >> 70% to 80% of african-americans down to world...
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. >>> straight ahead at 8:00, surviving sandy, the east coast shuts down as the deadly superstorm moves closer from school closings to storm surges, we have you covered with live team coverage all morning long. good morning everybody, i'm tony perkins. >> i'm allison seymour. right now, the storm is making its way up the east coast, poised for a district hit on the mid-atlantic tonight. >> in preparation of that, states of emergency have been declared from virginia to massachusetts, and president obama has promised a quick federal response. experts say sandy could impact some 50 million people up and down the east coast. it is already blamed for the deaths of 65 after sweeping through the caribbeans. >> now here at home, officials aren't taking any chances. >> that's because most schools in the region are closed, so is the federal government and the dc city government. you can see the full list of delays scrolling at the top
it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. >>> straight ahead at 8:00, surviving sandy, the east coast shuts down as the deadly superstorm moves closer from school closings to storm surges, we have you covered with live team coverage all morning long. good morning everybody, i'm tony perkins. >> i'm allison seymour. right now, the storm is making its way up the east...
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the town where the three civil rights workers were murdered and it was his and civil rights it was ronald reagan's way of saying yeah we're going to we're going to do this on the strategy next and so the strategy on steroids is still go the dog whistle politics the left all republicans are racist we heard it from joe biden when i was in the news racism i'm not saying that and i'm not saying the senator was a racist i'm saying he's calling out to the races that that's simply not true i mean you think there's a concerted effort on the part of mitt romney's campaign to reach out to racists to get them to vote for him yes you're crazy every little slice and first of all i don't think john sununu what he said was approved i think he just went off half cocked then why did he come back time and time again he's the co-chair of the camp right he's the guy who approves things right so you know because ours are there is brad this is such a lie why you say the romney is so stupid that he has moral chair of his campaign it's am doing what you're doing right now you're implying that all republicans are
the town where the three civil rights workers were murdered and it was his and civil rights it was ronald reagan's way of saying yeah we're going to we're going to do this on the strategy next and so the strategy on steroids is still go the dog whistle politics the left all republicans are racist we heard it from joe biden when i was in the news racism i'm not saying that and i'm not saying the senator was a racist i'm saying he's calling out to the races that that's simply not true i mean you...
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rights even though civil rights was a bipartisan issue until late in the 60's richard nixon got 42% of the black vote in 1967 decided to create that for the white working class load very successfully and specifically in the south there's a strong association between the civil rights movement and the democrats of today it's very hard to win the south back to respect how much of the antiobama rhetoric -- i know it's hard to put a number on it, but when i hear someone say romney was classier than michelle obama to the stomach somebody in tampa said she looks like a first lady. i mean -- [laughter] if you want a first lady that lectures you and when does your finger at you and tells you to stop it. yeah. you know, it's really quite unbelievable. it really is. >> president obama has been the president for almost four years now so i was having a conversation with someone the other day and he is the president who cares whether he is black, white or purple what this point why can't people except we have a black president? move on to we estimate it's one step forward and two steps back. bara
rights even though civil rights was a bipartisan issue until late in the 60's richard nixon got 42% of the black vote in 1967 decided to create that for the white working class load very successfully and specifically in the south there's a strong association between the civil rights movement and the democrats of today it's very hard to win the south back to respect how much of the antiobama rhetoric -- i know it's hard to put a number on it, but when i hear someone say romney was classier than...
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republicans passed the civil rights act while democrats opposeed it. blacks can gain success and prosperity by voting out the democrats and voting in the republicans. >> cenk: all right let's see if it worked. we have our panel here. i'll just pick someone as random. jayar. are you convinced? are you now republican after watching that ad. >> i was on the edge. they were trying to say all the right things. slavery. oh, my god. >> you're against slavery. from the very beginning the first thing coming out of the advocate's mouth, i have an announcement for you idiot black people, you dumb asss. the first thing that comes out are going straight to the emotional things. the naacp that you all loved. i heard you don't like it when we have separate fountains and we couldn't go to the same school, we did that, too. do you like that? it doesn't even begin to work. >> it's so insulting because it makes the assumption that black people don't know the difference between the republican party from 1865 to today. the republican party is so different. when you look at
republicans passed the civil rights act while democrats opposeed it. blacks can gain success and prosperity by voting out the democrats and voting in the republicans. >> cenk: all right let's see if it worked. we have our panel here. i'll just pick someone as random. jayar. are you convinced? are you now republican after watching that ad. >> i was on the edge. they were trying to say all the right things. slavery. oh, my god. >> you're against slavery. from the very beginning...
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rights attorney, governor, it was a path i am on. and i don't talk about my opponent and what i hope to do. i did it as a governor working with republican legislative leaders and we need more people in the senate who know how to do that. >> at the level in of the senate, you think you would be able to work with a romney white house? >> i would be able to work with a -- anyone who is present, and i would consider that any president my partnership. i'm a supporter of president obama. i want him to be elected. my first three years as governor, president bush was president and while we disagreed on a number of issues, i would not have defined myself as a destructionist to the president and we worked together in responding to virginia tech. when the president wanted a line-item veto, i supported the president on that. i will look to partner with whoever is president to do what is right for the commonwealth in the country. >> george allen appeared on fox 5 morning news last week. can you see both interviews on fox 5 d.c..com. >>> the last
rights attorney, governor, it was a path i am on. and i don't talk about my opponent and what i hope to do. i did it as a governor working with republican legislative leaders and we need more people in the senate who know how to do that. >> at the level in of the senate, you think you would be able to work with a romney white house? >> i would be able to work with a -- anyone who is present, and i would consider that any president my partnership. i'm a supporter of president obama....
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it's economic, it's social, it's our civil rights. i think women take a different view. as sandra was saying, though, there is that gap between married women and what i prefer to say as unmarried women other than single women. some of us are a little older and not married. there's 52 million unmarried women. they break overwhelmingly for president obama. so i do think that in these broader numbers, some of those distinctions get lost and most important group for president obama, black women voted for him. >> right, who are the single largest group in terms of turnout in 2008. victoria, i was wondering a little bit about this idea of what does it take to create a multi-racial cross class, close enter generational women's coalition? on the one hand, we're not all the same. having ovaries or at one point having ovaries, not even get spoog the biology of it all. but that alone doesn't give you shared political interests, but it is sometimes surprising to see how different those opinions are depending on what sort of woman we're talking about. >> absolutely. speaking in terms
it's economic, it's social, it's our civil rights. i think women take a different view. as sandra was saying, though, there is that gap between married women and what i prefer to say as unmarried women other than single women. some of us are a little older and not married. there's 52 million unmarried women. they break overwhelmingly for president obama. so i do think that in these broader numbers, some of those distinctions get lost and most important group for president obama, black women...
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donations have been pouring in to help heefamiiyy 3 bbd day for a civil rights leader who made a very controversial comment. was campaigning for president obama at a church in georgia paturday...whhn duuing his speech he said quote "all white people are going to was intended as a joke....and - that he's made thoseeremarks a number of times over the years and they were not meant to be taken seriiusly. "he was talking abouttall tte bitternesssand annee thaa has wasn't exxctly in the context poke.""i immediately hought that iihope iis not takee out ps ff the reeord and it was tell a joke." wassabout to &pjoke."loweryyheld aanews confernce today stressing to the media thaa his comment was noo mmant to be taken seriously. bad day or a woman whh made a thousand dollar tyyo wwile payyng a ill online. pdbra tupperrwas paying her dollars and 69 cents. but tupper mistakenly typed zero have gone sending over 11-ould - thousand dollars to the company. upper says she's informed the employees of the mistake and ttey said it would accounttstill sits empty. "i have nn money in my accoontss i'm gettin
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the territory scarred by the battles of the civil rights era. >> a klan bomb ripped apart birmingham's 16th street baptist church, killing four children attending bible class. >> reporter: so, we're in birmingham, alabama. and just down here is the jail where martin luther king jr. wrote the famous letter from a birmingham jail. along the way, we make a stop at the southern poverty law center, where mark potok and his colleagues have been fighting the kkk in courtrooms and classrooms for decades. many of the klanspeople we've talked to say barack obama has been our single most effective recruiting tool in the last four, five years. >> well, i think there's some truth to that. immediately after obama was elected, we saw two of the largest hate websites in the country crash. >> reporter: potok told us that by the late '80s, the klan dwindled to a few hundred. they now number closer to 6,000. >> white power! >> reporter: he believes they can be very dangerous. >> it's dangerous, not so much because a whole bunch of klansmen get together in a room and plan to murder 1,000 people with a bom
the territory scarred by the battles of the civil rights era. >> a klan bomb ripped apart birmingham's 16th street baptist church, killing four children attending bible class. >> reporter: so, we're in birmingham, alabama. and just down here is the jail where martin luther king jr. wrote the famous letter from a birmingham jail. along the way, we make a stop at the southern poverty law center, where mark potok and his colleagues have been fighting the kkk in courtrooms and...
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question 6 strengthens protections for our churches and guarantees the civil right to commit to the one you love. while there are those trying to divide us, presidents obama and clinton stand with us. pastors, business leaders, newspapers, democrats and republicans are all coming together for question 6. because it's about fairness-- treating everyone equal under the law. and who could be against that? [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] >> a sense of urgency along the atlantic coast as millions struggle to recover after superstorm sandy. now they also face the potential of another devastating storm in the coming week. >> there is no marathon in new york today. there is a race in the city and across the strike zone. millions rushing to clean up all they can ahead of what forecasters warn is a harsh nor'easter taking aim at the same areas devastated by city. >> we're looking at rain and wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour wednesday into thursday. >> right now with heavy equipment and by hand, the work continues around the clock. >> please start going door-to- door. ask
question 6 strengthens protections for our churches and guarantees the civil right to commit to the one you love. while there are those trying to divide us, presidents obama and clinton stand with us. pastors, business leaders, newspapers, democrats and republicans are all coming together for question 6. because it's about fairness-- treating everyone equal under the law. and who could be against that? [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] >> a sense of urgency along...
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i think the party that ignores some of these basic issues, education reform is really a major civil rights issue right now. 80% of the students in los angeles public schools are hispanic, so when that system sales, los angeles fails, california fails, but latinos feel this as well. tavis: how important is it to have voices in mainstream media that get a chance to express this view? >> one would be nice. i am struggling. when you look at the sunday morning shows, they are fairly monolithic, and once in awhile you will have someone, but i think that is the issue. we have not had because the moment in the hispanic community. we are still seeing it out of the mainstream to actually speak english. people are amazed that i speak english. it is quite a challenge to have a diverse latino zins in way. if no one tunes in to watch those shows, that will eventually change it. >> i think we will be hearing your voice. up next, the grammy nominated jazz artist robert glasper. stay with us. robert glasper is a grammy nominated judge pianist. -- jazz pianist. ♪ tavis: i have always loved that your group
i think the party that ignores some of these basic issues, education reform is really a major civil rights issue right now. 80% of the students in los angeles public schools are hispanic, so when that system sales, los angeles fails, california fails, but latinos feel this as well. tavis: how important is it to have voices in mainstream media that get a chance to express this view? >> one would be nice. i am struggling. when you look at the sunday morning shows, they are fairly...
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will i realize people who familiar with the actual history of civil rights in america who read my book notice that they haven't read the book but that was great because they believe everything "the new york times" believes that "the new york times" doesn't argue with me. at least the gals on the few would argue with me. the one sentence summary of my book is, white skills have never produced anything good and don't make the same mistake again america. that is why it hasn't come out before the election. hits a book about racism and to my critics chagrin i am against it. [laughter] liberals have been the primary practitioners of it and i start with the golden age of racial demagoguery in the 70's and 80s when every police shooting of a black kid would be the next mattel case and that is how what was treated in the media. suddenly the klan has taken over new york city police force. there are vignettes of various race hoaxes and much like the trayvon martin case, they all just disappear once the facts came out. you would never guess that this final article. attention readers, the story you
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tell" was one of his largest civil rights accomplishments. and the fact that you haven't heard any stories about any problems is an indication that sometimes it's better to do it over a slower process than do it expeditiously. >> as the nation's first black president, barack obama has been expected to tackle race in ways other presidents have not. he told "black enterprise" magazine, quote, i'm not the president of black america, i'm the president of the united states of america. >> everything he's done, both short-, medium-, and long-term, to get our economy back on track, all of that benefits the african-american community. >> harvard's randall kennedy has written about the president and race. >> there have been some black americans who have been quite critical of the president. the great masses of black americans have been quite realistic and have understood the special burdens that barack obama faced. >> i don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. >> early on, the president created an u
tell" was one of his largest civil rights accomplishments. and the fact that you haven't heard any stories about any problems is an indication that sometimes it's better to do it over a slower process than do it expeditiously. >> as the nation's first black president, barack obama has been expected to tackle race in ways other presidents have not. he told "black enterprise" magazine, quote, i'm not the president of black america, i'm the president of the united states of...
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tell" was one of his largest civil rights accomplishments. and the fact you haven't heard any stories about any problems is an indication that sometimes it's better to do it over a slower process than to do it expeditiously. >> as the nation's first black president, barack obama has been expected to tackle race in ways other presidents have not. he told "black enterprise" magazine, quote, i'm not the president of black america, i'm the president of the united states of america. >> everything he's done, both short, medium and long-term to get our economy back on track, all of that benefits the african-american community. >> harvard's randall kennedy has written about the president and race. >> there have been some black americans who have been quite critical of the president. the great masses of black americans have been quite realistic and have understood the special burdens that barack obama faced. >> i don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. >> early on, the president created an uproar
tell" was one of his largest civil rights accomplishments. and the fact you haven't heard any stories about any problems is an indication that sometimes it's better to do it over a slower process than to do it expeditiously. >> as the nation's first black president, barack obama has been expected to tackle race in ways other presidents have not. he told "black enterprise" magazine, quote, i'm not the president of black america, i'm the president of the united states of...